Laura Muir pleased with 5,000m indoor performance

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© Copyright - 2017 - Athletics Illustrated Great Britain’s Laura Muir continues to perform at a very high standard. On Jan 4, she broke Liz McColgan’s 25-year-old 5,000-metre indoor British record during the Glasgow Miler Meet at Emirates Arena....

Ethiopia’s Ayele Abshero and Dinknesh Mekash head the elite fields at the 2017 Standard...

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Ethiopian talent Ayele Abshero will be looking to make a big impact on his first trip to India when the gun goes for the 14th edition of the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon on Sunday 15 January. Abshero, now 26,...

Harriers Pioneer 8K race this Sunday

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© Copyright - 2017 - Athletics Illustrated The Vancouver Island Race Series will start in earnest on Sunday, January 8th with the 38th running of the Harriers Pioneer 8K road race in Saanichton (minutes north of Victoria, BC). The 8K race...
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Is Ethiopia’s Lifetime Doping ban just lip service?

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© Copyright - 2016 - Victoria Sports News Ethiopia happens to be one of five nations that the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has labelled in the category of “Critical Care” because of their lack of out-of-competition drug testing....

Can Galen Rupp break the B.A.A. Boston Marathon course record?

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© Copyright - 2016 - Athletics Illustrated Galen Rupp, 2012 London Olympic silver medallist in the 10,000-metre event and bronze medal winner during the Rio Olympic marathon, is currently training for the 2016 B.A.A. Boston Marathon. The inclusion of Rupp...

Putin denies state-sponsored doping happened in Russia as IOC launches disciplinary action from Sochi...

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From Inside the Games Vladimir Putin has said state-sponsored doping never happened in Russia on the same day the International Olympic Committee (IOC) opened disciplinary proceedings against 28 athletes from the country whose urine samples at Sochi 2014 contained evidence...

German Athletics Federation President criticises Bach and calls for Russian Olympic Committee to be...

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From Inside the Games German Athletics Federation (DLV) President Clemens Prokop has criticised the arguments of compatriot Thomas Bach, while calling for the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to be suspended until the country's doping problems are resolved. International Olympic Committee (IOC)...

The Death of international Cross Country

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© Copyright - 2016 - Athletics Illustrated The World Cross Country Championships are going to die a harsh death if intervention does not happen immediately. Before the world championships die, the European cross country championships will go down first. It will...

Olympic medallist brutally attacked in Mexico

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© Copyright - 2016 - Athletics Illustrated Four men brutally attacked Olympic medallist and Mexican senator Ana Guevara on Sunday, Dec 11th. The Mexican Senate has condemned the brutal and aggressive attack that the Olympic gold medallist suffered in a road...

Camille Buscomb interview

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© Copyright - 2016 - Athletics Illustrated Camille Buscomb of Hamilton, New Zealand won the Zatopek 10 race in Melbourne on Thursday, December 8th. She defeated defending champion and pre-race favourite Eloise Wellings. Buscomb finished in the time of 32:34.41....